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Monday, 28 October 2013

In an interview for the Belgrade-based Blic newspaper, the leader of
the Autonomous Democratic Serb Party (SDSS) added that "although some
are assuring us that there was no campaign against the Serbs or the
Cyrillic script in Croatia, too much has been said to confirm that such a
campaign is being lead."
Pupovac is coming to Belgrade to
participate in a meeting organized by the Institute for Language of the
Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts (SANU). He is expected to speak
about language ideologies, politics and intolerance in "the
post-Yugoslav countries," the daily said.

"After the meeting
between (Croatian) Prime Minister Zoran Milanović with representatives
of the defenders organized as leaders of a campaign against Cyrillic,
and after withdrawal of the police, the situation has been somewhat more
peaceful in spite of the removal of two plates
in two scripts (Latin and Cyrillic). As regards a compromise, I can say
there is room for it, but everyone should contribute," Pupovac was
quoted as saying, and adding:

"It is always forgotten in this
campaign that the citizens of Vukovar of Serb nationality were also
killed or suffered. The atmosphere that is being created now is such
that war will be more important than peace."

Pupovac welcomed
the recent meeting between the two countries' presidents, and said it
was "good because it has the symbolic power even when there are no other
effects. I do not know if it was historical."

Speaking about
the genocide lawsuits that Croatia and Serbia filed against one another
before the International Court of Justice, he said that "political
strength and consensus" were necessary in other to make a deal on the
status of the lawsuits, but that this was "missing in Croatia at the
moment."